Week 36 - Futures F7 (10k) - Wroclaw, Poland

wolf · Tennis legend

Week 36 - Futures F7 (10k) - Wroclaw, Poland

Nathaliia · Lower Club Player

long live the low fare airlines I guess ;) Maybe I will go to this event for one day, but not sure.

Smidster · Challenger level

QR1: Adam Olbrich UNR lost to Tomas Zeman CZE UNR 6-2 6-3

Salmon · Tennis legend

Robin Vik gets the SE, I think? Hopefully he'll play here and didn't turn up last week just for the fun.

Played a great match against Lleyton at the 2006 Australian Open.

steven · Tennis legend

Kind R1 draws in Poland for all except Feaver:

L32: Josh Milton WR 972 v (WC) Mateusz Szigiel (POL) WR 1873
L32: Matt Illingworth WR 783 v (Q) Andiej Kapas (POL) WR 1547
L32: James Feaver WR 828 v (5) Dusan Lojda (CZE) WR 649
L32: David Rice WR 1077 v (Q) T Krzyszkowski (POL) WR 1627

Nathaliia · Lower Club Player

All these Polish players suck so indeed a kind draw. I'll be at the venue on Friday so keep fingers for your guys to last till that day lol.

helki · Futures qualifying

Milton through to the next round 6-3 2-6 6-2. smile

Feaver lost 1-6 0-6 cry

Bad one there, James.

Rice through - 2-6 7-6(4) 7-6(2)

Made hard work of it but got there in the end.

Illingworth is playing tomorrow.

-- Edited by helki at 18:52, 2008-09-02

gazzpash · Club Coach

That should put Rice into Top 1000

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Ouch for Feaver - never expected him to win, but he shouldn't have lost that badly.

Milton and Rice made it harder than they should have done, but at least they won in the end which is the most important thing

helki · Futures qualifying

helki wrote:

Illingworth is playing tomorrow.

And somehow he managed to lose to a Polish qualifier 6-7(7) 5-7. weirdface

Rice will play the 2nd seed, Koniusz, while Milton takes on the 5th seed and another Pole, Godlewski. On paper neither looks easy. ashamed

steven · Tennis legend

All the R1 results in one post ...

L32: Josh Milton WR 972 beat (WC) Mateusz Szigiel (POL) WR 1873 by 6-3 2-6 6-2 smile

L32: Matt Illingworth WR 783 lost to (Q) Andiej Kapas (POL) WR 1547 by 7-6(7) 7-5 bleh

L32: James Feaver WR 828 lost to (5) Dusan Lojda (CZE) WR 649 by 1 & 0 cry

L32: David Rice WR 1077 beat (Q) Tomasz Krzyszkowski (POL) WR 1627 by 2-4 7-6(4) 7-6(2) smile

L16: Josh Milton WR 972 v (8) R Godlewski (POL) WR 699
L16: David Rice WR 1077 v (2) Blazej Koniusz (POL) WR 498

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

After all his good recent form, he goes and loses to the worst player he's probably played in the last few months.

freerider · Futures level

but if it was a british future and it was a promising british junior you wouldn't be suprised if the result went the other way. unranked wildcards or qualifiers are always a lottery

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

freerider wrote:

but if it was a british future and it was a promising british junior you wouldn't be suprised if the result went the other way. unranked wildcards or qualifiers are always a lottery

True.... but I suppose a way of looking at it is that if the guy was a good player, he'd have got a WC rather than having to qualify, so the fact that there were 4 guys ranked outside the top 1200 that the organizers thought were better than him probably means it was a match Illingworth should win.

I know it's not always the case that the best 4 players get the WC's, but it is a general rule that they seem to do, so local WC's are more dangerous than local qualifiers

Nathaliia · Lower Club Player

Actually one of the guys who got WCs here was a son of the sponsor and one more was a son of a politician